02186cam a22002537 4500001000700000003000500007005001700012008004100029100002200070245015100092260006600243490004200309500001600351520104000367530006101407538007201468538003601540690006201576690010001638710004201738830007701780856003801857856003701895w12085NBER20161209112054.0161209s2006 mau||||fs|||| 000 0 eng d1 aBorjas, George J.10aImmigration in High-Skill Labor Marketsh[electronic resource]:bThe Impact of Foreign Students on the Earnings of Doctorates /cGeorge J. Borjas. aCambridge, Mass.bNational Bureau of Economic Researchc2006.1 aNBER working paper seriesvno. w12085 aMarch 2006.3 aThe rapid growth in the number of foreign students enrolled in American universities has transformed the higher education system, particularly at the graduate level. Many of these newly minted doctorates remain in the United States after receiving their doctoral degrees, so that the foreign student influx can have a significant impact in the labor market for high-skill workers. Using data drawn from the Survey of Earned Doctorates and the Survey of Doctoral Recipients, the study shows that a foreign student influx into a particular doctoral field at a particular time had a significant and adverse effect on the earnings of doctorates in that field who graduated at roughly the same time. A 10 percent immigration-induced increase in the supply of doctorates lowers the wage of competing workers by about 3 to 4 percent. About half of this adverse wage effect can be attributed to the increased prevalence of low-pay postdoctoral appointments in fields that have softer labor market conditions because of large-scale immigration. aHardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. aSystem requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files. aMode of access: World Wide Web. 7aJ23 - Labor Demand2Journal of Economic Literature class. 7aJ61 - Geographic Labor Mobility • Immigrant Workers2Journal of Economic Literature class.2 aNational Bureau of Economic Research. 0aWorking Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research)vno. w12085.4 uhttp://www.nber.org/papers/w1208541uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w12085